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#Oppose - Most Wikipedia users are ''readers'', not editors, therefore most features should be designed for them. Datelinking devalues useful links. It also necessitates useless extra work for editors. [[User:Awadewit|Awadewit]] ([[User talk:Awadewit|talk]]) 00:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
#I oppose autoformatting. I hate that meaningless blue mess of [[WP:OVERLINK|overlinked]] dates. And isn't it rather odd that people from the US and UK are supposed to be befuddled by each other's ''practically'' identical date formats, when the rest of the world with their much more wildly variable date formatting is quite capable of understanding both of them? [[User:Bishonen|Bishonen]] | [[User talk:Bishonen|talk]] 00:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC).
#:Unless I'm missing something, this has nothing to do with date linking. <font face="Trebuchet MS"><b>— [[User:Neurolysis|<font color="#5A3696">neuro</font>]]</b><sup><i>[[User talk:Neurolysis|<font color="#5A3696">(talk)</font>]][[WP:Editor review/Neurolysis|(review)]]</i></sup></font> 01:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
#Oppose, I don't really see this as needed, I'm not convinced there's a problem that needs this as a solution. <font color="Purple">[[User:Raven1977|Raven1977]]</font><sup><font color="Blue">[[User Talk:Raven1977|Talk to me]]</font></sup><sub><font color="Purple">[[Special:Contributions/Raven1977|My edits]]</font></sub> 00:15, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
#'''Oppose''' I would have thought this had been settled the first, second, and [[Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/RFC:_Unresolved_date_delinking_and_autoformatting_issues#Date_autoformatting|third time around]]. Now we’re at it a fourth time. No, autformatting is not desirable. Nor is it necessary. Just chose the format most appropriate for the article (based on [[Wikipedia:Mosnum#Full_date_formatting|MOSNUM guidelines]]), write it out in fixed text, and be done with it. Jumping through all these hoops just so a handful of editors can be spared the shock of seeing a date format they disapprove of is something they will survive; I guarantee it. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">'''[[User:Greg L|Greg L]]''' ([[User_talk:Greg_L|talk]])</span> 00:26, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
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